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Welease Woderwick
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From Out of Bounds by Mike Seabrook:
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And then, without any warning or preamble, he started to cry, a bitter spring of hot, painful tears. They were the last tears he ever shed as a boy, perhaps the first he ever shed as a man.
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The line in my sig is from A maçã no escuro ("The Apple in the Dark") by Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector.
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Piglet
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Not exactly High Literature, but this put-down from one of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire books (I think it was Appassionata) always makes me smile:
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"I think - " said Flora
"Don't," said Rannaldini icily, "you haven't got the equipment".
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Hedgehog
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Originally posted by piglet:
Not exactly High Literature, but this put-down from one of Jilly Cooper's Rutshire books (I think it was Appassionata) always makes me smile:
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"I think - " said Flora
"Don't," said Rannaldini icily, "you haven't got the equipment".
Actually, that sounds very familiar. Where have I heard it before? Oh, yes! Here it is:
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“I think--” began Piglet nervously.
“Don’t,” said Eeyore.
--The House at Pooh Corner
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They knew I was a Four on the Enneagram at my seminar when I was able to quote by heart the following from Jane Austen's juvenilia, Love and Freindship (sic).
"A sensibility too tremblingly alive to every affliction of my Friends, my Acquaintance and particularly to every affliction of my own, was my only fault, if a fault it could be called."
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Firenze
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"Gertrude DeMongmorenci McFiggin had known neither father nor mother. They had both died years before she was born. Of her mother she knew nothing, save that she was French, was extremely beautiful, and that all her ancestors and even her business acquaintances had perished in the Revolution."
Stephen Leacock 'Gertrude the Governess'
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The opening lines of 'The Glass Menagerie', by Tennessee Williams. Truly fabulous.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
In Spain there was revolution. Here there was only shouting and confusion.
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Lord Jestocost
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quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
“I think--” began Piglet nervously.
“Don’t,” said Eeyore.
--The House at Pooh Corner
A.A> Milne is another untapped vein, of course.
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"Hello Rabbit, is that you?"
"Let's pretend it isn't", said Rabbit, "and see what happens."
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Welease Woderwick
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Having been prompted by this thread to reread Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle I came across this:
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I shall go down and be very kind to everyone. Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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Cara
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YES, WW!! Wonderful line.
Actually this very sentence was mentioned upthread by Earwig in response to my posting of the book's first line, but no reason why it shouldn't have a post all of its own.
Hope you are enjoying the re-read (and the wrist is healing...)
Hot baths are (to quote someone else but I don't know who) a real benison. But only those of a certain age who grew up in chilly, non-centrally-heated ramshackle English houses can really understand this...
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Kaplan Corday
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quote:
Originally posted by anoesis:
The opening lines of 'The Glass Menagerie', by Tennessee Williams. Truly fabulous.
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
To begin with, I turn back time. I reverse it to that quaint period, the thirties, when the huge middle class of America was matriculating in a school for the blind. Their eyes had failed them, or they had failed their eyes, and so they were having their fingers pressed forcibly down on the fiery Braille alphabet of a dissolving economy.
In Spain there was revolution. Here there was only shouting and confusion.
Reminds me of a favourite quote from Philp Roth's story Epstein, in which the character Epstein describes his daughter's boyfriend:-
Lou Epstein had never resembled that chinless, lazy, smart-alec whose living was earned singing folk songs in a saloon, and who once had asked Epstein if it hadn’t been “thrilling” to have lived through “a period of great social upheaval” like the thirties.
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Piglet
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quote:
Originally posted by Hedgehog:
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“I think--” began Piglet nervously.
“Don’t,” said Eeyore.
--The House at Pooh Corner
Thanks, Hedgehog - I suspect Jolly Jilly may have been inspired by the great A. A.
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Hope I'm remembering this correctly because Google seems to have no knowledge of it, but I love this line from Ulysses (I think).
The sound of the peal of the hour of the night by the chimes of the bells of the church of saint George
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“What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.”
It's from American Gods, by Neil Gaiman
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'We often hear military experts inculcate the doctrine of giving priority to the decisive theatre. There is a lot in this. But in war this principle, like all others, is governed by facts and circumstances; otherwise strategy would be too easy. It would become a drill-book and not an art; it would depend on rules and not on an instructed and fortunate judgement of the proportions of an ever-changing scene'.
From the Grand Alliance (Vol 3 WW2) by Winston Churchill.
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Virtually anything in Three Men in a Boat, quite probably the funniest book of the 19th century, especially the episode of the pineapple tin. I have a first edition and I recommend you lot read it yourselves! Mine is even illustrated!
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"Michael was usually attired in the height of fashion, with a certain mercantile brilliancy best described as stylish; nor could anything be said against him, as a rule, but that he looked a trifle too like a wedding guest to be quite a gentleman"
From The Wrong Box which also has to be a strong candidate for the funniest book of the 19th century (although I like Three Men in a Boat ), too.
The ending is perfect - I won't spoil it by quoting it here.
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Firenze
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'Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rarther pious but Mr Salteena was not very adicted to prayers so he marched up to bed. Ethel stayed as she thourght it would be a good thing. The butler came in as he was a very holy man and Bernard piously said the Our Father and a very good hymm called I will keep my anger down and a Decad of the Rosary.'
Daisy Ashford: The Young Visitors
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The one line comes part way through this, but you need the run up to it. It is in "Jennings Goes to School" by Anthony Buckeridge. The teacher, Mr Wilkins, is demonstrating the fire escape,a sling system (these actually exist - I saw one at an adult education centre.)
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"Sticking out of this hole ... is a strap, or sling, which goes underneath your armpits. And this-er-gadget here is an adjustable-er-adjuster which you move up and down if you want to adjust it. In other words..." he sought in vain for the correct technical term. "In other words, it's adjustable."
"What's it just able to do, sir" inquired Venables innocently.
"I didn't say it was just able to do anything."
"Well, what's the good of it then, sir, if it doesn't do anything?"
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Daisy Ashford: The Young Visitors
Wonderful book.
"I say said Mr Salteena excitedly I have had some tea in bed."
"Yes I am nearly ready said Ethel I had a bath last night so I wont wash very much now."
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Chamois
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"If he's really moving on towards emotional maturity he won't be having a reconciliation with a woman who merely replaced a teddy bear in his affections"
The Wonder Worker by Susan Howarth. Her books are full of great one-liners but this is one of my favourites.
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"She looks up at Anthony,
thinking how, if he knew,
if he had any idea,
then the soil of her Eden
could be ripped away
leaving her alone
on this unforgiving rock.
The secret must stay
and - according to the scientists -
the love will live.
The heart is quite comfortable with secrets."
Sharp Teeth by Toby Barlow
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Welease Woderwick
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Another online one, this from Sequoyah's Summerfire:
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I guess time is a thief.......it steals what you love but memories hold them for you till you're ready to let them go.
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Welease Woderwick
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That attribution is wronger than a wrong thing - it is actually by Grasshopper.
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Lord Jestocost
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For some reason I woke up with a couple of quotes form Perelandra going through my head.
First, when Ransom confronts Weston, a.k.a. the Devil:
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Weston - "Do you not know who I am?".
Ransom - "I know what you are. Which of them doesn't matter"
And second, when Ransom finishes him off with a big, heavy stone:
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"In the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes ... I mean, Amen."
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Welease Woderwick
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I am just reading another story online and this line resonates:
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You know what the worst thing is, the very worst thing, in the morning? Cheerfulness. It’s awful.
Preach it, brother!
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Moo
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From one of Saki's stories quote:
Each feels that she has nurtured a viper in her bosom. Nothing fans the flame of human resentment so much as the discovery that one's bosom has been utilized as a snake sanitarium.
Moo
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More Hitchhikers:
Arthur Dent: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm locked in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!
Ford Prefect: Why? What did she say?
Arthur Dent: I don't know! I didn't listen!
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Welease Woderwick
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From India by Sanjeev Bhaskar when he was asked by a school teacher why Asians smell so funny:
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"Oh, it's something you would be unfamiliar with Miss, it's called soap." One of the detentions I ever got.
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He said tha, by God, D H Lawrence was right when he said there must be a dumb, dark, dull, bitter belly-tension between a man and a womanm and how else could this be achieved save in the long monotony of marriage?
from Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
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The play Cyrano de Bergerac has kind of a special meaning for me:
"Yes, what my life was for
was to be the one who prompts – and is ignored!"
-being the shy kid in the back while others got the spotlight, although I didn't really mind. Plus there have been a few occasions where I have "played Cyrano"-I've written letters, given words and talked to guys for my prettier friends.
There was one college incident in particular that was a lot like the play...a much-prettier friend of mine and I met a guy...my friend liked him but had no idea what to say to him, so she had me talk to him for her, sort of like the scene in the garden*...we ended up liking each other, but I was dating someone at the time, so nothing happened...fast forward a few months, I was single so something could have possibly happened, but the opportunity had passed. Kind of like how, when Roxane finally figured out who was saying all those things to her, he's about to die.
" Physicist, metaphysician/poet/duellist and musician
and voyager to the heavens, master of how to answer back/A lover too, but not to his gain!
Here lies Hercule Savinien de Cyrano de Bergerac,/who was all things, and all in vain."
*I've always wondered...how is it that Roxane didn't notice that the voice had changed when Cyrano took over for Christian during that scene?
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Welease Woderwick
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Apologies to the Hosts if this qualifies as Thread Necrmancy but I've just read this online and thought I'd share it - it is an Imam speaking to a Jewish teenager:
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What I’m getting at is that there truly is one God, and I’d be a fool to believe that he would create only one true and just path to seek his good graces.
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I have just been reminded of this lovely observation from Lindsey Davis' "The Silver Pigs"
Vespasian's banquets were very old fashioned. The waitresses kept all their clothes on and he never poisoned the food.
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After all the carryings-on in The Lord of the Rings, the last line comes as quite a shock.
'Well, I'm back,' he (Sam) said.
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I like that. I hadn't really seen it before but I don't think it's reading too much into it to relate it to the full title of The Hobbit There and Back Again.
Even without that possible connection it's a satifying ending. For some reason Where The Wild Things Are sprung to mind as having a similar feel (from memory) Into the night of his very own room,
where he found his supper waiting for him - and it was still hot.
Both good stories.
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I am considering the following for my first tattoo on my 50th birthday (many years away yet):
Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
men willingly believe that which they wish to be true
(Caesar, Gallic Wars III:18)
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Want some weepies?
'A babbled o' green fields' – death of Falstaff. (Please hand me a hanky)
And from Daudet: La Dernière Classe after which all lessons in Alsace will be condcted in German, the language of the conquerors:
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He turned to the board, took a piece of chalk and, using all of his strength, he wrote as large as he could:
“VIVE LA FRANCE!”
He stayed there, his head resting on the wall, and wordlessly used his hand to motion to us: “It’s over … you may go.”
(Better in French but then I'd have to translate as well.)
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I met what may well become a favourite one-liner yesterday. From "Shards of Honor" By Lois McMaster Bujold:
"They think they are the wave of the future, when in fact they are sewage flowing downhill."
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I was chatting today and quoted a line from (of all things) Bessie Bunter at the Circus, (by Hilda Richards, who was really Frank Richards, who also wrote the Billy Bunter books) which I think should be here.
The girls are helping out at a circus during the school holidays, and are told that they have to get up at 7am to feed the animals.
One of the girls says:
"Seven o'clock? Is there such an hour on holiday?"
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I can't find the book just at the moment, so can't verify the title, but there is a W H Auden poem which begins (and I swear I'm not making it up!)
'When the sex wars ended
with the slaughter of the grandmothers'
(Unfortunately, it goes down-hill from there, IMO.
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Some Science Fiction
From Earthblood by Keith Laumer and Rosalind Brown. (alas from memory, my copy has disappeared)
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Be careful. Twenty years ago that place was the haunt of the scum of the galaxy and since then the neighborhood has deteriorated.
From Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
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His followers called him Mhasamatman and said he was a god. He preferred to drop the Maha- and -atman, however and called himself Sam. He never claimed to be a god. But then, he never claimed not to be a god. Circumstances being what they were, neither admission could be of any benefit. Silence, though, could.
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Moo
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Here is the first sentence of Edith Wharton's short story, "Xingu". quote:
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
Moo
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Not really a book, but quoted in many biographies, so kind of in lots of books, when Napoleon was asked how his honeymoon went, he is supposed to have said, 'she asked me to do it again'.
See for example, the marvelous Frank McLynn book, 'Napoleon'.
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quote:
Originally posted by Moo:
Here is the first sentence of Edith Wharton's short story, "Xingu". quote:
Mrs. Ballinger is one of the ladies who pursue Culture in bands, as though it were dangerous to meet it alone.
Moo
I must re-read Edith Wharton.
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Huia
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Me too. One of the unintended consequences for me in starting this thread has been to remind me of things I want to re-read as well as things I have never read, but now want to.
Huia
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Welease Woderwick
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...and, even in retirement, there is NEVER enough time!
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Moo
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
I must re-read Edith Wharton.
That short story was in an excellent high school textbook of American literature. I have never seen it anywhere else.
The story is hilarious.
Moo
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Originally posted by Moo:
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Originally posted by Galloping Granny:
I must re-read Edith Wharton.
That short story was in an excellent high school textbook of American literature. I have never seen it anywhere else.
The story is hilarious.
Moo
I've just read it at readbookonline.net and it really is very good.
Here's another quote:
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Her mind was an hotel where facts came and went like transient lodgers, without leaving their address behind, and frequently without paying for their board.
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There's a lovely one from Sharyn McCrumb, who wrote the brilliant Bimbos of the Death Sun (about an SF convention - hilarious and painfully true at the same time) and also mysteries set in the Appalachian Mountains. Describing a friend of the main character in one story, she says
"She dwells in possibility - which in her case is a long commute from everyday life."
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